From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Pride Before the Fall

by Daniel on June 28, 2010 · 1 comment

If pride goeth before a fall, then Texas is fucked. me.

Mary Poppins at Spring Break

by Daniel on June 25, 2010 · 0 comments

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. So does tequila. – me.

Geek Dads Weekly

Another week, another Geek Dads Weekly! I can’t tell you how proud of myself I am today. We recorded the show from 2-3pm, and I had it edited, uploaded and posted by four. That almost never happens – in fact, the past two episodes didn’t get posted until three days after recording them. From the [...]

On Tuesday, [Conde Nast] announced it would resurrect Gourmet magazine, the celebrated food and travel publication the company discontinued in October, as an iPad application called Gourmet Live. via Gourmet Magazine Revived for the iPad – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com. In the comments of this article, Leucas wrote: “Other than some fancier UI, IPad apps [...]

Push vs. Shove

by Daniel on June 22, 2010 · 1 comment

When push comes to shove, shove usually wins. me

Me: I’m going downtown to play poker tonight. Her: Wow, really? But there’s no casinos in this city or anything, right? Me: Well, no, there’s no casinos, it’s just a bunch of people playing. You know that movie Rounders? Her: You’re gonna play in smoke-filled back rooms with John Malkovich? Me: We’re a bunch of [...]

I was recently introduced to Blackbird Pie, a pretty slick method of quoting Twitter updates. Bloggers who wanted to quote Twitter updates have had two options: get a screen capture and post the image or quote the update in plain text with a plain text link to it. The former was a bit of a [...]

Maybe you’ve seen the ads on TV or heard them on the radio or seen them in magazines. Discover Card would like you to know that you can earn 5% cash back in certain categories (currently, Restaurants) when you pay using your Discover card. Everything else, you earn 1% cash back. Coming up in July, [...]

I’ve just posted the third episode of Daniel Destroys to YouTube [see my YouTube channel]. Hawkman, Wonder Woman and Black Vulcan get sucked into a black hole and the team has to go rescue them. If it had been Robin instead of Wonder Woman, they probably wouldn’t have bothered. The trio ends up on a [...]